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August 8, 2008The Antichrist and his coalition of Arab/Muslim states will initially imply "brotherhood" with Judeo-Christian Organized Religion. In his ascent to power, this will be politically necessary. When the Antichrist achieves world power, he will no longer need Judeo-Christian Organized Religion. He will always hate Judeo-Christian Organized Religion, but will veil his hatred until he has achieved world power. He will then give vent to his hatred, and destroy Judeo-Christian Organized Religion.
Revelation 17:16-17 (NIV) The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled.
Revelation 14:8 (NIV) A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
Isaiah 21:9 (NIV) Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: 'Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!'"
When the Antichrist sets himself up in the Temple, "the abomination that causes desolation" Matthew 24:15b (NIV), the day of the Gentile will be forever closed. The only Organized Religion that will exist after mid-Tribulation will be the worship of the Antichrist. The Lamb Beast (False Prophet-Pope) will force the inhabitants of the earth to worship the Antichrist.
Revelation 13:11-18 (NIV) Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
Executive Order will dictate the closing of all Judeo-Christian churches. There will no longer be any people in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion. Judeo-Christian Organized Religion will cease to exist immediately after mid-Tribulation. Most of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion has already become a tool of deceit used by the Devil. There will no longer be a need by the Devil to deceive Gentiles. Their fate will be sealed. All of the false religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.) around the world will cease to exist after mid-Tribulation, as these were designed by the Devil to doom people, and the Gentiles fate will be sealed. The false religions will have run their course, and served their purpose.
Some of the deceived will finally admit that they have been playing games, but it will be too late. They will realize that they have been lied to theologically. They will recognize that the social organizations they thought were churches have failed to prepare them for the Tribulation. They will realize that the donations that they have made to the Great Whore are useless in purchasing them salvation.
Judeo-Christian Church buildings could not have existed until 323 A. D. when Constantine, Emperor of Rome ended the persecution of the Body of Christ by the Roman Empire and declared Judeo-Christianity to be the State religion of the Roman Empire. This appears to have been a tactical move by the Devil who after 300 years of persecution had failed to stamp out Judeo-Christianity. (I am sure that in fact the Body of Christ was continuing to strengthen as it always does under persecution.) The tactical move by the Devil was to join and redirect the focus of Judeo-Christianity. The Power of the Roman Empire evolved into the Power of the Roman Catholic Church. With the blessings of the Roman Empire, church buildings were then erected. The focus of Organized Religion was redirected from Jesus Christ to buildings and assets; the Bible was removed, and the Dark Ages came forth. At mid-Tribulation, under the reinstated persecution of the Body of Christ by Rome, church buildings for the worship of Jesus Christ will cease to exist. The Body of Christ will go back underground to worship.
Most in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion have relied on the approval of man and the approval of Organized Religion as proof to themselves of their own Righteousness. They have leaned on a broken crutch. At this crisis time, the crutch will be stripped from their hand and they will lie crippled, helpless, and FOREVER DAMNED.
Jeremiah 8:4-22 (NIV) "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: "'When men fall down, do they not get up? When a man turns away, does he not return? 5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return. 6 I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle. 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. 8 "'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have? 10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace. 12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD. 13 "'I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.'" 14 "Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him. 15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror. 16 The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there." 17 "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD. 18 O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me. 19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?" 20 "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved." 21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?
The rebellion of the Children of Israel under Zedekiah and subsequent judgment is a fore glimpse of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion after mid-Tribulation.
Jeremiah 21:3-8 (NIV) But Jeremiah answered them, "Tell Zedekiah, 4 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city. 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in anger and fury and great wrath. 6 I will strike down those who live in this city--both men and animals--and they will die of a terrible plague. 7 After that, declares the LORD, I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.' 8 "Furthermore, tell the people, 'This is what the LORD says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.
Amos 7:7-9 (NIV) This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" "A plumb line," I replied. Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. 9 "The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam."
Amos 8:1-3 (NIV) This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. 2 "What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the LORD said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. 3 "In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!"
Judeo-Christian Organized Religion has listened to lying prophets instead of God.
Jeremiah 5:30-31 (NIV) "A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: 31 The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
Isaiah 9:14-16 (NIV) So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day; 15 the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail. 16 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.
Micah 2:6 (NIV) "Do not prophesy," their prophets say. "Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us."
Micah 2:11 (NIV) If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' he would be just the prophet for this people!
Micah 3:5 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, if one feeds them, they proclaim 'peace'; if he does not, they prepare to wage war against him.
These Laodicean ministers within Judeo-Christian Organized Religion are not receptive to criticism, and thereby identify and label themselves by Proverbs 9:7-8.
Proverbs 9:7-8 (NIV) "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse. 8 Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
Micah 3:11 (NIV) Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us."
Isaiah 30:9-14 (NIV) These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord's instruction. 10 They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. 11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!" 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, 13 this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. 14 It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
Jeremiah 23:30 (NIV) "Therefore," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
Jeremiah 28:8-9 (NIV) From early times the prophets who preceded you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague against many countries and great kingdoms. 9 But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the LORD only if his prediction comes true."
Hosea 9:7-8 (NIV) The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired man a maniac. 8 The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Ezekiel 34:1-10 (NIV) The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? 3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. 4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them. 7 "'Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, 9 therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 10 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
One of the influences of Satan through the Eastern Religions, and the "New Age Movement" on Judeo-Christian Organized Religion has been to minimize the reality of Jesus Christ as an actual being. These religions will not have a problem accepting the Antichrist. They have been taught that God is in you (humanism); you are God. It will not be a hard stretch to believe that God is in the Antichrist; he is God. They will not have a problem accepting the Antichrist, as their cult doctrine states that man can become a God. They will simply believe that the Antichrist has become one. The "New Age Movement," is a cult doctrine that cuts directly across, and is perfectly perpendicular to the Holy Word of God. To state that man is God, or can become God is the desire, thinking, and teaching of the Devil. This plague will become more prevalent, and will infect much of theology as our society deteriorates. Those who do not know the True and Living God, who have no clear understanding of God, and who have no clear definition of what God is, will certainly not have a problem accepting the Antichrist as God.